#physical distancing

[ramyeonpng]

today’s prompt: What’s something you want to do once physical distancing is over?

#PandemicPoetry

[grouchydairy]

This year I promised to make time to connect with others, an intentional step towards ensuring that physical distancing did not eradicate emotional closeness.

#poetry

[eggwhiteswithspinach]

As so many of us swapped to online meetings for physical distancing, trying to balance the perks but also an annoyance, I’m hoping that we can bring the perks forward when we can finally meet in physical rooms again.

#quotes

[princess-kittyxoxo]

something risky

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[oldbutchdanielcraig]

have you ever seen two people more married in your entire life. please

[brontes]

I had a thought today about all that vampires lose in the twilight lore. Sure sure they’re fast and strong and invulnerable BUT they lose the chance to earn things because of that. The Cullens are rich but like…that just happens when you invest for three centuries. They can lift incredible amounts of weight…but just by nature and not because they’ve built up to it. They build projects and make paintings and learn…but they will always lack the satisfaction that comes from managing those accomplishments amidst the regular demands of life. Edward was seventeen…he never got the chance to earn anything by the sweat of his brow or the burning of the midnight oil.

Beyond just the bloodlust, they miss out on the regular daily challenges that make our time and pleasure meaningful. Something that is easily overlooked by teenagers reading a love story but honestly something heartbreaking to contemplate.

[l1-b1]

Sketches of Nya from Hands of Time and Skybound!!

The outgrown Bob haircut phase

[mollysunder]

It's very pointed that of all the family portraits we've seen in Arcane, Ambessa's the one who keeps her family, especially her children the furthest from her.

Seriously, you've got Jayce and his dad togetger.

Vander and the kids.

Even in the Kiramman portrait, Cassandra may be positioned above her husband and child, but they're still connected.

Just wow. The signs were there from the start.

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Kinda obsessed with how out in the middle of nowhere that house Eddie’s just brought is - how its supposedly only a few miles from his parents house - where Chris is - but there’s nothing around it. Reflecting the isolation Eddie is about to subject himself to - physical and mental/emotional.

[ndcultureis]

ND culture is getting happy from a hyperfixation feels like a panic attack. Like I genuinely feel like I'm about to explode. Its horrible and I can't stim enough to get myself through it. I struggle to breathe. I have a headache. It start to feel violent.

The emotional dysregulation doesn't discriminate what feelings it chooses to dysregulate

But when I vent to my friends about it they say "But I thought hyperfixations are supposed to be fun?" because of how watered down the term has become to just mean something you're really interested in

Sometimes I genuinely think of restricting my access to most of my interests because its that painful to go through every time I see something exciting

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[grouchydairy]

This year I promised to make time to connect with others, an intentional step towards ensuring that physical distancing did not eradicate emotional closeness.

#poetry

[fallen-goldfishcracker]

Still on my Ulder & Wyll bullshit but like

I keep thinking of Ulder Ravenguard, sending away his only son at seventeen, and years later hearing of a hero with a fine rapier and mismatched, kind eyes and manners from a storybook, and thinking, demanding surely not. that cannot be my son. my son is a devil's servant. it cannot be. i have no son.

and then after seven long years meeting Wyll again, at Wrym's Rock through a mindflayer's thrall, and feeling something like relief, not at seeing him but at this cold surety that this boy, this man, this hero of the frontiers could not be his son, because his son was not this tall and old and sure-footed, and did not have curling horns and a devil red eye, and the rumors must be wrong, and this Blade must be a stranger.

And then Wyll looks at him, with such kind eyes- his mother's eyes still, even devil-tainted- and calls him "father", and he knows, he knows, and his son is here, so much older and wearier and stronger, too, and he's a hero and a man and by gods he's a monster and by gods he's his son.

[bonefall]

thinking about rewriting moonpaw (as someone who doesn’t rewrite wc) bc i am plural. bc i can make it my headmates’ problems too. for some reason my first thought was “she split a firestar fictive after growing up with stories about him. he’s a caretaker”

You can and you should!

I could go off about how one of the best things anyone can do as a portrayal of anything is to humanize the subject, especially of experiences as complex and misunderstood as plurality. That art is the way we connect with each other, exercise our imagination and our empathy, get others to understand our radically different lived experiences.

But do it because you want to.

Do it because you can see yourself.

Do it because it's cathartic to watch a character encounter with the same thoughts, emotions, and situations as you.

Sometimes, it even becomes answers to questions you'd been grappling with for a long time, and you learn something about yourself. If it feels good, pursue it. That's all the justification you need.

[brolcagno]

Going home after a tiring case, as you do Redraw- Original below!

[iztea]

Would you ever be willing to draw atsushi, akutagawa, or other characters? They would look so ethereal in your art style imo

Also what are your thoughts on the recent chapter?

i have drawn Aku like. twice a while back which is a shame cause he's one of my faves and i like both him and atsushi and many other charas 😭 my Dazai exclusivity is purely accidental. He has me in a chokehold and brother, I've never been much of a fighter.

I've shared my thoughts on the recent chap on twt (more or less) so i'll paraphrase from there but overall i think it was very hype! i usually complain about the plot because the arc feels like suuuuch a drag atp but I've always considered bsd to be a very character-driven show rather than plot-driven (like AoT to give an example) so I've come to embrace the wackiness of the plot although it does tackle some very interesting elements this time like spacetime (more on that later).

Character-wise, it was very curious to see Fyodors reaction to like., the human spirit and just how genuinely disgusted and repulsed he was by Atsushi's selflessness; it really makes you wonder what exactly happened that shaped him into such a spiteful man (perhaps his liver was diseased aha ok no sorry). And then he dropped that line about Dazai not being fit to be his other half??? Which really raises a lot of questions, first of all being if Dazai was even aware of this soulmate fantasy of his? Did he ever ask ?😭 (he'd still refuse but still). Maybe if he stopped trying to kill him then he'd get the message. And not to make everything about skk ( their relationship is an integral part of the show IT'S NOT MY FAULT nor do i mean this in a shippy way‐at all) but....I'll just paste what i said on twt because im too lazy to rephrase it

and the MY GOAT AKU came to save the day although i dont think it's really him atm the fit goes crazyyyyyyyy harddddddddddddddd we love you harukawa !!! <33

i also . okay since they brought irl physics into this then so will I so hear me out:

-the AmeNoFuku thing exists in the the 4-dimentional spacetime so that means the principles of General Relativity still apply.

-What distorts spacetime? Gravity.

-Who can offensively manipulate gravity and cause great destruction and havoc? That's right! Chuuya in his corrupted form SO, unless the AmeNoFuku-triple-McCombo bitch opperates in the context of Special Relativity (because he did mention his body being in the Minkowski space where gravity is effectively neglected--but come on why would he that's such a cop out) then that means that 2+2 = Chuuya is fully capable of defeating that thing and saving the day if he weren't in France!!! thanks for coming to my TedTalk

[windsweptinred]

Town: So tell us about your sculpture idea.

Artist: Well it will sound like the mournful cries of damned souls. The horrific call of a lovecraftian abomination. Walkers on the moors will hear it and sh*t themselves. All will listen to it's tune and despair...And you could always put a twee little picnic bench next to it.

Town: Sold!

(The Singing Ringing Tree by Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu. Burnley, Lancashire)